Press Releases & Updates 2000

Roger (72), of Horsley, Gloucestershire, was convicted on the 3rd of March along with three others from the Midlands affinity group of Trident Ploughshares, of causing criminal damage to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. He was ordered to pay £250 towards court costs and £291 compensation for the damage. He has already attended this court for payment to be enforced. Today Roger was given a further opportunity to pay up. He has been asked to make weekly payments of £15 and could be sent to prison if he has not made the first payment by 8th December.

In a three-page statement that was read out to the court Roger commented that prison was unlikely to change his determination to continue the work of de-commissioning the UK’s illegal weapons of mass destruction. He suggested community service as an option -perhaps there was some old fencing in the area that needed taken down. His experience in tackling the perimeter fences at various Trident bases and sites would stand him in good stead for that work. Roger said: "That would be a suitably Gilbertian solution."

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